Flowers from the Storm

The Duke of Jervaulx was brilliant and dangerous.

Considered dissolute, reckless, and extravagant, he was transparently referred to as the ′D of J′ in scandal sheets, where he and his various exploits featured with frequency. But sometimes the most womanising rake can be irresistible, and even his most casual attentions fascinated the sheltered Maddy Timms, quiet daughter of a simple mathematician.

When a sudden seizure robs Christian of speech, his family declares him mad and confines him to an asylum. Chained in a cell at Blythedale Hall, he is forsaken by his peers as an incurable lunatic.

Surrounded by keepers who see only a brute, Christian finds his champion in the quiet Quaker girl he once teased. Seeing his intellect intact, Maddy becomes his attendant to fight for his freedom.

Can a sheltered Quaker maiden rescue England’s most dangerous duke before his enemies silence him forever?

Forced Proximity: Locked behind the barred doors of Blythedale Hall, a proud nobleman stripped of his words must rely on a woman he once disdained to save him from violent attendants and freezing plunge baths.
Opposites Attract: A rakehell duke accustomed to London scandal sheets and worldly pleasure finds himself humbled by a pious Quaker maiden who answers his arrogance with quiet steel.
Race Against Time: With covetous relatives convening a Chancery competency hearing to strip Christian of his estate, Maddy must risk social ruin and her own faith to secure his escape before the law seals his fate forever.
Regency Romance: From the high-stakes mathematics of the London Analytical Society to the ancestral towers of the Welsh border, their battle for survival turns an unlikely partnership into a breathtaking alliance.
Also by This Author: The Hidden Heart, The Shadow and the Star and Uncertain Magic.